McNeill, David.

Gesture and thought / David McNeill. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005. - xii, 318p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why gestures? -- How gestures carry meaning -- Two dimensions -- Imagery-language dialectic -- Discourse -- Children and whorf -- Neurogesture -- The thought-language-hand link and language origins.

0226514625 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2005000612


Gesture.
Psycholinguistics.
Thought and thinking.
Speech.
Sign language.
Language and languages.

P117 / .M359 2005